Kim, Jungyeon. 2020. Korean partial reduplication in Serial Template Satisfaction. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology, 26.2. 261-277.

This study focuses on partial reduplication that involves doubling of only part of the base observed in Korean morphology. Previous attempts conducted within different frameworks of Optimality Theory as well as pre-OT theories do not adequately give a consistent, unified explanation for several important issues associated with Korean partial reduplication such as the differences between CV and CVC reduplicants and various classes of partial reduplication. This study analyzes the seemingly problematic cases within the framework of Serial Template Satisfaction, a theory of reduplication embedded in Harmonic Serialism, which is a derivational version of Optimality Theory. In STS, template satisfaction is a gradual process that plays out over the course of a derivation using several different natural operations. This study shows that the predictions of STS are supported by the disadvantages of many other theories of reduplication including Base-Reduplicant Correspondence Theory.

Keywords: Korean partial reduplication, Base-Reduplicant Correspondence Theory, Harmonic Serialism, Serial Template Satisfaction